Words, words, I love words.  As a tribute here are some words about, well, words. 


"We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for."  John Henry Newman

"We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them." - Abigail Adams

"Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all." - Winston Churchill

"Don't use a long word if a diminutive one will do." - William Saffire

"If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know?" - Steven Wright

"All words are pegs on which to hang ideas." - Henry Ward Beecher

"It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word." - Fedor Dostoevsky

"Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go." - William Shakespeare

"A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day." - Emily Dickinson

"The paper burns, but the words fly away." - Ben Joseph Akiba